{"product_id":"coward-plays-3-design-for-living-cavalcade-conversation-piece-tonight-at-8-30-i-still-life-9780413461001","title":"Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (I); Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Noel Coward\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from\u003cbr\u003ethe thirties. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Design for Living\u003c\/i\u003e - is about a triangular alliance\u003cbr\u003ebetween two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he\u003cbr\u003ewaited to write \"until she and he and I had arrived by different roads\u003cbr\u003ein our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three\u003cbr\u003eplay together with a more or less equal degree of success.\" \u003ci\u003eCavalcade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewas Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War, \u003cbr\u003ewhich cost  30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief\u003cbr\u003eof the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. \u003ci\u003eConversation Piece \u003c\/i\u003eis a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian\u003cbr\u003estar Yvonne Printemps and includes the song \"I'll Follow My Secret\u003cbr\u003eHeart\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso in the volume are three short plays including \u003ci\u003eTonight at 8.30 -\u003cbr\u003eHands Across the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society;\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life \u003c\/i\u003ewhich became the film \u003ci\u003eBrief Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFumed Oak\u003c\/i\u003e a suburban\u003cbr\u003ecomedy about a 'worm who turns'. The volume is introduced by Sheridan\u003cbr\u003eMorley.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45083059454103,"sku":"9780413461001","price":2859.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780413461001.webp?v=1767263625","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/coward-plays-3-design-for-living-cavalcade-conversation-piece-tonight-at-8-30-i-still-life-9780413461001","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}